Today Is Earth Day - Caring For Our Environment - Including Illegal Dumping And Littering - Telegrapgh UK

Another great worldly idea which our local Mount Druitt area would be able to work on, from here on in. 

Maybe we could have a 'Mount Druitt Care Day', where the entire community gets involved about illegal dumping of rubbish and littering as discussed in a previous post Click here

Check out how you can help out here or at least look at the below 1 minute video:

International Earth Day litter video

If Only Blacktown Council Cleared This Area At Hythe Street Reserve Mount Druitt......

I have been totally disgusted with the way some community members trash our areas: streets, roads and Dawson Mall. I was educated and taught about personal and community hygiene, tidiness, neatness and and cleanliness.

Yet, time after time, after Blacktown City Council officers spend hours, picking up and cleaning areas where any amounts of rubbish are dumped or dropped, voluntarily. There are the few that think because they walk on or around public property, they can do what they like with it, including burn rubbish , if not picked up.

Here is Grass Fire at Hythe Street Reserve Mount Druitt today

Click here for previous post

I have reported in the past,issues of dumped rubbish and over grown grass on the Hythe Street Reserve, Mount Druitt (which is along Ear Street) and have not received a response from NSW EPA or Blacktown City Council as yet, either from Councillors or Council Officers. If only they had responded and cleared this rubbish. That would have been a start and then maintain the property by mowing the grass down.

A suggestion from a former Blacktown City Councillor, Kathy Collins is so simple that I do think Council need to look at this inniative: that community members pick up rubbish in front of their own properties as they place their rubbish bins, each week for pick up.

Click  here for suggestion from Former Blacktown City Councillor!

Click Here on Post NSW EPA Fines  

NSW EPA Tosser Adds Required Click here to view it 

Resolution to this problem, is not one person's responsibility. Let's go back to teaching the basics of  keeping  our community clean and tidy to our community. The following are the ways I think our community can change:

• Kathy Collins suggestion of clean front of your house, when placing rubbish bins ready for pick up.
• Promotions of "Tosser Campaign" all around Dawson Mall/Mount Druitt Town Square, streets and all Parks/Reserve within Mount Druitt, materials obtained through NSW EPA litter.prevention@epa.nsw.gov.au 
• Each Councillor from Blacktown City Council, must spread the word of a cleaner environment at every public meeting they address and every community member they meet.
• Keep your community clean signs - place the amount of fines on signs.
• Local radio and newspaper media remind and the community that the cleaner we keep our land the emphasis on a cleaner life to live in!

• Council Rangers fining community members and then the community will start to get the word - or if the community member wants to spend a day cleaning up a few streets instead - that will pay their dues or go out to the community likes schools and business, to teach them the right way of keeping our community clean.
• Blacktown City Council, should organise cleaning of an report an public area within 3 to 4 days, not neglect it - like what has happen here!
• Maybe Council can engage the community in open forums where people  make suggestions of improvements in this area.

I'm sure that Blacktown City Council spend Millions of Dollars of  'Keeping our communities clean'! More community pride will reduce these costs, thus reducing council rates and more for useful expenditure!

Community Members Using Streets As Dumping Grounds - What Can We Do?

Around North Mount Druitt in various streets that I walk around in, people tend to dump personal furnishing/ belongings in  various places and Blacktown City Council does an excellent job to clean these streets.

Although dumping  not required items on footpaths, creates unhygienic health and safety issues which really any community members need to do, is leave the streets as respectable and clean as you would at your own home!

What I would like to suggest to Blacktown City Council, in the corner of Earl Street and Hythe Streets Mount Druitt or similar - signs for dumping of rubbish and its fines be put into place and if caught dumping , this can not just be a way to keep the community clean, but to provide possible revenue to Council.

At this stage if  anyone see any rubbish on any streets, that need to be addressed and removed, contact us via our home page  e-mail and send a picture in, with a description of where it is. We will refer to Council to attend to it, making it an improved community.